Possibility of Quantum Gravity

That was right.

At that very moment.

On the slip of paper Yang and Lee had pushed to the center of the table, three identical Chinese characters were written in plain sight:

Graviton.

The instant Huang Kun saw the word.

His mind went completely blank, as though everything in his brain had been wiped.

If Yang beside him hadn't caught him in time, Huang Kun might even have fallen to the floor in front of everyone.

But it wasn't fair to blame Huang Kun for having a weak constitution.

Across the entire physics community, even top scientists like Einstein and Dirac—no, even Xu Yun, a time traveler from the future—would have struggled to stay calm at the mention of gravitons.

In a sense.

The concept of the graviton could basically be understood as a vague, almost mythical legend.

As everyone knew.

Although nobody could fully describe quantum mechanics, the formal framework of modern quantum mechanics consisted of five axioms:

1. The state of an isolated physical system could be associated with a vector in a Hilbert space.

2. An observable of a physical system corresponded to a Hermitian operator. If the system was in state Φ, measuring physical quantity A would yield an eigenvalue a of A with probability p.

3. If the system was in state Φ, after measuring physical quantity A and obtaining eigenvalue a, the system would instantly collapse into the subspace corresponding to a.

4. A system's evolution over time followed the Schrodinger equation.

5. The wave function of identical particles was symmetric for bosons and antisymmetric for fermions.

Building on these five axioms, the physics community had developed methods for renormalizing force fields.

That meant renormalizing several fundamental interactions and finding the corresponding mechanisms.

When renormalization theory was first proposed, only the electromagnetic force could